QUOTES OF THE WEEK   

David Mark

Presently, Nigeria is simply a jungle environment and the rule must change to conform with those operating in the jungle and I believe the security agencies should be able to do that.

—David Mark, Senate President, canvassing jungle tactics to deal with the menace of kidnappers.

Onovo

We are only responding to the ideals of a democratic dispensation. Since they (kidnappers) decided to dare us, we are out to fight them measure for measure.

—Ogbonna Onovo, Inspector-General of Police, affirming the Force’s resolve to adopt extreme measures to smoke out kidnappers in the country.

Jonathan

There are some communities where kidnapping is becoming business. Some very senior people are involved and we are tracking them. This is because when some are kidnapped, some people come all the way from Lagos as negotiators, very senior people who have all the degrees in the world, who people respect, but they have all degenerated to the level of abetting and associating with kidnapping.

—President Goodluck Jonathan, positing that elites are involved in the rounds of kidnapping happening in the country.

Zoning was never meant to be a permanent feature of our democracy. Surely, the day is coming when both our nation and our democracy would become as mature as to make zoning most unnecessary.

—Solomon Lar, founding chairman, Peoples Democratic Party, saying zoning was not designed to be a permanent arrangement in 1999.